Improvement in letter-files



H. D. WOODBRIDGE.

Letter-Pile.

No. 208,277. Patented Sept. 24.1878.

N. PETERSv FKOTOUTHOGRIPHEE WASHINGTON. D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY D. YVOODBRIDGE, OF NEWVARK, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN LETTER-Fl LES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,277, datedSeptember 24, 1878; application filed March 15, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, HENRY D.Woon13n1nen, of Newark, in the county ofLicking and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement inLetter-Files, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to that class of files which are constructed witha curved wire prong for holding the letters, bills, receipts, &c., andare adapted to be hung on the wall like a bracket, the wire prong beingsecured to a metal plate for suspending it. Files of this character asnow ordinarily constructed have been found to be quite defective byreason of the fact that the mode of securing the wire prong to the backplate is usually i1nperfeet, that said prong very soon gets loose, andis then liable to turn upside down with its load of bills, which arethus apt to become disarranged and scattered and lost.

The object of my invention is to so connect the wire prong to its backplate that it cannot possibly turn.

To this end it consists in passing the end of the prong through theplate, returning it through another hole, and then riveting or otherwisefastening the returned end.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myletter-file. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, showing the wireprong as applied to the back plate. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the rearside of the back-plate.

The same letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

A is the back plate, of metal or other suitable material, having formednear the upper end thereof a slot, to, wide at the bottom and narrowingtoward the top, to adapt it to easily pass over a nail or screw-head andbe securely held thereon. Near the lower end this back plate A isprovided with two holes, I) and b, of a size just sufficient to allowthe wire prong B to pass through and fit tightly therein. Having put theend of the prong through the hole b, it is then bent down and returnedthrough the hole I), and headed up or riveted on the face of plate A.

It will be seen that by this arrangement the wire prong will beeffectually prevented from turning.

Instead of riveting the returned end, it may be secured in any otherpreferred manner.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A file for letters, bills, receipts, 850., composed of a back plate anda wire prong secured thereto with one end, by. passing it through theplate and then returning it through another hole for fastening it,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the foregoingspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY D. WOODBRIDGE.

\Vitnesses:

JONATHAN REES, EDWARD F. NEWKIRK.

